The best restaurants in Kildare

15/06/2025: A wonderful cafe offering an excellent variety of freshly prepared food, with helpful happy staff. Well worth a visit.

09/06/2025: What can I say apart from the food and the staff were lovely.

23/06/2025: Always amazing, keep coming back because the food is soo good, staff are so friendly and polite. 10/10 would recommend if you havent tried it yet.

23/06/2025: This place is absolutely amazing. The food was so good, and you're able to customize your own spice level of all the food because we had a large party of 6. we got a complimentary appetizer along with free ice cream for the kids and free mango lassies. All of the food was amazing, and for a small restaurant, the vibe was amazing overall its a 10/10, and I recommend that people go here. The staff are amazing and kind, and the food is incredible

07/06/2025: Great food and staff. I'm a regular there at least once a month. Love it

05/06/2025: 10/10 experience, service was great, zero rush, very attentive but also discreet, very friendly. food was delicious great prices for big portions.

22/06/2025: Great coffee, one of the best in Maynooth. The staff are always cheerful and friendly. The place has enough indoor seating and there are more public seating outside.

10/05/2025: The bartender has an excellent choice of words, and with good manners. The ambience is of the old times, pints and laughs in the countryside.

20/06/2025: Have had lunch here twice in the past few months and the service is second to none. Very attentive and accommodating for young families. Made eating out with two toddlers much more relaxed than usual.

19/06/2025: Had a lovely meal with my friends and the server Daniel could not have been any better 🙏 Brilliant service and extremely attentive

25/06/2025: Good quality pizza and tasty chips with a great service. Its recomended.

06/04/2025: The order is always ready quickly and no matter what you order, it is definitely delicious.

25/06/2025: Staff lovely food could be hotter but was delicious so worth the price

24/06/2025: A busy but best place for refuelling and has showers very good food outlets a supermarket and the parking spaces are very big

11/06/2025: Had read reviews about The Grill Shack and decided to try it out on a Saturday late afternoon, it was very busy but were accommodated, service was excellent lovely friendly staff and the food was delicious one steak and one double burger and a side of onion rings Highly recommend a visit

08/06/2025: The staff here are lovely. The southern fried chicken burger was delicious however the fries really let this place down they were hard and undercooked. The pepper sauce tasted like gravy. A nice spot to bring the kids for something different.

06/07/2025: Brilliant food, service and great prices, will definitely be back and recommending to friends!

16/06/2025: For us - it's one of the best restaurant in Kildare, a must visit whenever we're in the area. Highly recommended ordering the potato skins, chicken wings, and liver paté - all great choices. Also not to forget the great local beer brewed here. Check out the beer platter if you're into a variety of craft beer!

20/06/2025: We went in there as a big group and was pretty late at night but the staff were lovely and looked after us very well. The food was great and just amazing! Would definitely go in again.

20/06/2025: Great sushi, great atmosphere Daniel was very helpful with the menu!

29/04/2025: Best kebab, and very lovely pizzas, the best in the town!

29/04/2025: Love the kebabs here, and very nice kebab pizza too

27/06/2025: Excellent service and wonderfully polite staff, in particular the woman who took our orders and let us know of any and all available deals.

20/06/2025: Was there this evening Amazing staff Cristina is very friendly and nice Be back definitely Thank you!!

04/07/2025: Just rude! Manager and waiter both balked when we asked if we could get a knife to cut my daughter's birthday cake. Oh no, you can't have that in here! First and only time in over 20 years I've ever been in a restaurant where they treat you like you're some kind of peasant for wanting to have a birthday cake, yet the manager wears running shoes and they allow patrons bring their dogs in to sit with them while they eat. Found the manager and head waiter to be just rude. The other staff has glazed eyes that just said, I don't want to be here. It's a real shame cos the food was really good, but although I've been here a few times, after tonight I'll never go back. Went across the road to Brady's afterwards, where they were so helpful and brought us out a knife and napkins and displayed genuine interest in their customer service. Found Bistro 53 to be pretentious.

27/06/2025: Excellent prompt professional service. More effort could be put into the food, it was good but could have been better, tastier sauces etc Loved the atmosphere l. Would recommend and will return

05/07/2025: The "Spirit" of Carton House is kind natured and warm. We were made to feel very welcome throughout all of our experiences over 4 days. Don't even get me started about the quality of the food and the lovely dining experiences! I also believe Carton House is an excellent value. I hope to return one day soon. I am grateful.

05/07/2025: Great place for a short family break.

24/06/2025: Top class gastro pub food with some interesting combination. The steak and the 12hr cooked beef were first class

24/06/2025: Great evening here, beautiful meal and server was so lovely. Highly recommend